योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-7, chapter-63, verse-1

श्रीराम उवाच ।
तव स्त्रियाऽस्वरूपेण देहेनाभूत्तया कथम् ।
कथमुच्चारितास्तत्र वर्णाः कचटतादयः ॥ १ ॥

śrīrāma uvāca ,
tava striyā'svarūpeṇa dehenābhūttayā katham ,
kathamuccāritāstatra varṇāḥ kacaṭatādayaḥ 1

1. Rama rejoined:—O sage, how could you hold your conference with the incorporeal maid, and how could she utter the letters of the alphabet, without her organs of speech?